Carissa Véliz
@carissaveliz.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Author of #Prophecy (forthcoming April 2026) and #PrivacyIsPower (An Economist Book of the Year). Keynote Speaker. Posts about #privacy, #AIethics, #philosophy, #philtech
It's great to see #PROPHECY gathering friends. Thank you so much for everyone who has pre-ordered. It matters. It gets noticed. It's part of being in the conversation. THANK YOU! #Book www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/759692...
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It's great to see #PROPHECY gathering friends. Thank you so much for everyone who has pre-ordered. It matters. It gets noticed. It's part of being in the conversation. THANK YOU! #Book www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/759692...
If you pre-order #PROPHECY and tell me about it, you will make my day 🙏🙏🙏 Also, please share with your friends and colleagues. Thank you for your help! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/759692...
November 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
If you pre-order #PROPHECY and tell me about it, you will make my day 🙏🙏🙏 Also, please share with your friends and colleagues. Thank you for your help! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/759692...
But mostly thanks to readers, without whom it makes no sense to publish a book. Thank YOU. 16/
November 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
But mostly thanks to readers, without whom it makes no sense to publish a book. Thank YOU. 16/
You can pre-order PROPHECY now, here, if you're in the US (link for UK below): www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/759692...
November 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
You can pre-order PROPHECY now, here, if you're in the US (link for UK below): www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/759692...
Help me prove that a book can still beat the tyranny of the algorithms; that in a world full of fakery and insincerity, truth can still cut through the bullshit; that despite the popularity of villains and predators and liars, Socrates is still the hero. 9/
November 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Help me prove that a book can still beat the tyranny of the algorithms; that in a world full of fakery and insincerity, truth can still cut through the bullshit; that despite the popularity of villains and predators and liars, Socrates is still the hero. 9/
#PROPHECY also took me to the beautiful Lake Cuomo, thanks to the @rockefellerfdn.bsky.social 's Bellagio Center, where I finished the book surrounded by beauty and new friends. 6/
November 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
#PROPHECY also took me to the beautiful Lake Cuomo, thanks to the @rockefellerfdn.bsky.social 's Bellagio Center, where I finished the book surrounded by beauty and new friends. 6/
#PROPHECY is also a book about humor and creativity against the machine. took me to some unsuspected places, like interviewing JohnCleese
on humor, creativity, and democracy! 5/
on humor, creativity, and democracy! 5/
November 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
#PROPHECY is also a book about humor and creativity against the machine. took me to some unsuspected places, like interviewing JohnCleese
on humor, creativity, and democracy! 5/
on humor, creativity, and democracy! 5/
If you liked PRIVACY IS POWER, you’ll love PROPHECY. Let me put it this way: my first book was pre-tenure. 😈 This time around I didn’t hold back, I’ve given it my all. 4/
November 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
If you liked PRIVACY IS POWER, you’ll love PROPHECY. Let me put it this way: my first book was pre-tenure. 😈 This time around I didn’t hold back, I’ve given it my all. 4/
#PROPHECY is about how predictions change the world; how they are power plays disguised as truth claims; how the oracles of the ancient world turned into astrologers in medieval times, then sociologists in the 19th century, and then tech executives today. 3/
November 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
#PROPHECY is about how predictions change the world; how they are power plays disguised as truth claims; how the oracles of the ancient world turned into astrologers in medieval times, then sociologists in the 19th century, and then tech executives today. 3/
Drumrolls, please! I’m thrilled to share the cover for my forthcoming #book from @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
(Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/
(Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/
November 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Drumrolls, please! I’m thrilled to share the cover for my forthcoming #book from @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
(Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/
(Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/
A #book has been brewing. It’s been taking shape among the spires of Oxford, the coffee shops of Madrid, and the libraries of Paris. It is the best, boldest, most honest, and most personal book I’ve written thus far. And I can’t wait to tell you more about it. Stay tuned. More to come next week.
November 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
A #book has been brewing. It’s been taking shape among the spires of Oxford, the coffee shops of Madrid, and the libraries of Paris. It is the best, boldest, most honest, and most personal book I’ve written thus far. And I can’t wait to tell you more about it. Stay tuned. More to come next week.
Can’t wait for the HTLGI festival! Join us in Kenwood House on 21 September! I’ll be signing #books! #PrivacyIsPower. And debating about 'Dreams and Delusions of the Information Age'. #AIEthics howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/lo...
August 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Can’t wait for the HTLGI festival! Join us in Kenwood House on 21 September! I’ll be signing #books! #PrivacyIsPower. And debating about 'Dreams and Delusions of the Information Age'. #AIEthics howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/lo...
5. If you are wondering whether false information about someone can count as a privacy violation, read my book, The Ethics of #Privacy and Surveillance, Chapter 6 on the epistemology of privacy. (Get here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...) 5/
March 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
5. If you are wondering whether false information about someone can count as a privacy violation, read my book, The Ethics of #Privacy and Surveillance, Chapter 6 on the epistemology of privacy. (Get here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...) 5/
Big Tech’s growing use of data centres has created related public health costs related to treating cancers, asthma, etc. valued at more than $5.4bn over the past five years. And that number doesn't capture the human cost - suffering, loss of life, etc. #AIEthics
www.ft.com/content/d595...
www.ft.com/content/d595...
March 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Big Tech’s growing use of data centres has created related public health costs related to treating cancers, asthma, etc. valued at more than $5.4bn over the past five years. And that number doesn't capture the human cost - suffering, loss of life, etc. #AIEthics
www.ft.com/content/d595...
www.ft.com/content/d595...
5/ "Tell me everything," by @lizstrout.bsky.social "This is the story of Bob Burgess. (...) Bob has a big hearth, but he does not know that about himself. (...) [H]e would never believe he had anything worthy in his life to document. But he does; we all do."
January 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
5/ "Tell me everything," by @lizstrout.bsky.social "This is the story of Bob Burgess. (...) Bob has a big hearth, but he does not know that about himself. (...) [H]e would never believe he had anything worthy in his life to document. But he does; we all do."
4/ "Ten Steps to Nanette," by @hannahgadsby.bsky.social. Smart, insightful, funny, sincere, and painful. You can't ask much more from a book.
January 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
4/ "Ten Steps to Nanette," by @hannahgadsby.bsky.social. Smart, insightful, funny, sincere, and painful. You can't ask much more from a book.
3/ Hannah Arendt, by @samantharhill.bsky.social. This is the story about a woman who the FBI described as having "a marvelous mind." It's about writing as a process of understanding. It's about the value of outsiders, of bravery, and of integrity. #philosophy
January 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
3/ Hannah Arendt, by @samantharhill.bsky.social. This is the story about a woman who the FBI described as having "a marvelous mind." It's about writing as a process of understanding. It's about the value of outsiders, of bravery, and of integrity. #philosophy
2/ "The Tech Coup", by @marietjeschaake.bsky.social. What's cool about this book is that Marietje is an insider to the political process, so she has some great stories to tell, and they are well told. "People are disenfranchised when they do not know the rules they are governed by"
January 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
2/ "The Tech Coup", by @marietjeschaake.bsky.social. What's cool about this book is that Marietje is an insider to the political process, so she has some great stories to tell, and they are well told. "People are disenfranchised when they do not know the rules they are governed by"
1/ Supremacy, by @parmy.bsky.social. "After picking up this book and reading these first few words, you might be wondering if a human wrote them. That's ok. I'm not offended." 🤣 #AIEthics
January 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
1/ Supremacy, by @parmy.bsky.social. "After picking up this book and reading these first few words, you might be wondering if a human wrote them. That's ok. I'm not offended." 🤣 #AIEthics
January 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Very proud to see Neil Levy's chapter for the Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics, "Fake News: Rebuilding the Epistemic Landscape", featured in this list. Check it out! #philosophy #AIEthics @neillevy.bsky.social academic.oup.com/journals/pag...
December 18, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Very proud to see Neil Levy's chapter for the Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics, "Fake News: Rebuilding the Epistemic Landscape", featured in this list. Check it out! #philosophy #AIEthics @neillevy.bsky.social academic.oup.com/journals/pag...
December 6, 2024 at 1:21 PM
November 14, 2024 at 5:00 PM
The ease with which #GenAI can create text, images and data threatens with an increasingly untrustworthy scientific literature awash with fakery. Which three of these six images are fake? #AIEthics
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 5, 2024 at 7:02 PM
The ease with which #GenAI can create text, images and data threatens with an increasingly untrustworthy scientific literature awash with fakery. Which three of these six images are fake? #AIEthics
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...